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Deb Weinstein, Truthout: "Two days after regulations went into effect making it easier for veterans to seek treatment for PTSD, members of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs met Wednesday with veterans, the mother of an Iraq war veteran who committed suicide, and members of the Veterans Health Administration to discuss other ways to help veterans get the help they need."

http://www.truth-out.org/veteran-care-more-questions-than-solutions61397



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Jason Leopold, Truthout: "Jay Bybee, the former head of the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) who signed two infamous August 2002 legal memos which authorized CIA interrogators to torture 'war on terror' prisoners, told a congressional committee that more than a half-dozen of the tactics detainees were subjected to were not 'authorized' by the DOJ."

http://www.truth-out.org/author-torture-memos-admits-some-techniques-were-not-approved-by-doj61392

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ACLU: House Committee Releases Deposition of OLC Torture Memo Author Jay Bybee
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2010/07/15-14

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Former DoJ official: CIA exceeded interrogation limits

San Jose Mercury News

07/15/10

The former Justice Department official who cowrote the so-called torture memos testified that the department did not sanction some of the harsh methods the CIA used against detainees during the George W. Bush administration, including the repeated waterboarding of two suspected terrorists. Jay Bybee, former head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, said in testimony released Thursday by the House Judiciary Committee that the CIA went further in its tough tactics than he had outlined as permissible in a widely criticized legal memoranda. Bybee appeared before the committee May 26...

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15527755?source=rss


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Tortured by Self-Pity: The Sociopathic Judge Jay Bybee
http://www.lewrockwell.com/grigg/grigg-w159.html



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22 Statistics That Prove That The Middle Class Is Being Systematically Wiped Out Of Existence In America

Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most prosperous middle class in the history of the world, but now that is changing at a blinding pace.

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By Steven Brill

Along a marble corridor in the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, I watched about 40 well-dressed men (and two women) delivering huge value for their employers. Except that we, the taxpayers, weren't employing them. The nation's banks, mortgage lenders, stockbrokers, private-equity funds and derivatives traders were.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25948.htm



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By Stanley Kutler

The American Empire is alive and well-and as expansive as ever. We have established more than 700 military bases across the world, largely encircling the peripheries of Russia and China, which are now central to the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25950.htm



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Our Future Blog
by Robert Borosage

07/14/10

Voters are in a surly temper. The economy stinks. Jobs are scarce. Wages are under pressure. One in 4 homes with mortgages is underwater. Retirement savings have been butchered; pensions are at risk. Bailed out bankers are paying themselves record bonuses; the oil keeps fouling the Gulf; the jobs aren’t coming back. It is ugly out here. Not surprisingly, faith in Obama is starting to flag. According to a recent Washington Post poll, a startling 58% have only some or no faith that he will make the right decisions about the country’s future. Congressional Democrats fare worse. Republicans would be salivating, only folks overwhelmingly don’t want to rehire them either. A staggering 72% have little or no trust in congressional Republicans on the country’s future. And now the election season starts...

http://tinyurl.com/2dd4zqm



Signs of the times

FreedomPolitics
by Thomas Sowell

07/13/10

If you could spend vast amounts of other people’s money just by saying a few magic words, wouldn’t you be tempted to do it? Barack Obama has spent hundreds of billions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money just by using the magic words ’stimulus’ and ‘jobs.’ It doesn’t matter politically that the stimulus is not actually stimulating and that the unemployment rate remains up near double-digit levels, despite all the spending and all the rhetoric about jobs...

http://tinyurl.com/2bn73z2



A moral abomination

Cato Institute
by Daniel J. Mitchell

07/14/10

Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah and Rep. Bob Inglis of South Carolina were bounced in their Republican primaries in large part because they voted for the Wall Street bailout. It is expected that the list of ‘TARP martyrs’ will become much larger this November as voters have additional opportunities to express their unhappiness about the massive transfer of wealth from taxpayers to poorly run but politically connected financial institutions. Beltway insiders and members of the political establishment are mourning these developments, asserting that the TARP martyrs are noble and courageous officials who did the right thing despite the risk to their careers. The obvious implication is that ordinary voters are a bunch of yokels who did not understand the steps that were needed to rescue the financial system and the economy from collapse...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=11983



Obama told lies about bailouts

Nolan Chart
by Walt Thiessen

07/24/10

President Obama on Wednesday signed into law what most major media outlets called the most sweeping financial industry reform legislation since the Great Depression, hailing the reforms as establishing ‘the strongest consumer financial protections in history.’ In actual fact, they failed to report that President Obama, Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who sponsored the bill in the Senate, Barney Frank of Massachusetts, who sponsored the bill in the House of Representatives, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, and all the top talking heads of the Obama administration, Wall Street, the major parties, and the media, have all been telling some of the most brazen, most blatant, most bold-faced lies ever told in human history in defense of their new law. Let’s take a moment to examine some of these lies...

http://www.nolanchart.com/article7871.html



Deflation: The blood on Bernanke’s hands

Freedom's Phoenix
by Bill Bonner

08/04/10

As near as we can tell, the Japanese-style correction is still underway. Consumers are careful about spending because they fear they might not have jobs. Employers are careful about hiring because they fear they might not have revenue. And banks are careful about lending because 1) few people want to borrow, and 2) the banks figure they may need the money themselves. Meanwhile, Ben Bernanke has staked his entire reputation on being able to avoid a Japanese-style slump...

http://tinyurl.com/2b9wjp8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Making Americans Sick
http://www.lewrockwell.com/williams-w/w-williams43.html

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TARP watchdogs reiterate criticisms of mortgage modification efforts

The government's three TARP watchdogs testified before the Senate Finance Committee Wednesday and continued to criticize the government's much-maligned mortgage modification program.

http://bit.ly/behVEV


From Information Clearing House



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Spiked
by Tim Black

07/14//10

‘A man’s home is his castle.’ Rarely has this 400-year-old quipped defence against the arbitrary exercise of state power seemed quite as quaint as it does today. Because whatever else a man’s home is, whatever else he feels his private sphere to be, it is certainly not impermeable. In fact, due to a whole raft of legislation over the past 10 years, our private existence has never been quite so transparent. The state, should it so wish, can read our emails, can check which websites we visit, can watch us take our dogs for walks, can follow us on our way to work … in fact, the possibilities for state surveillance are endless. And the chief reason for this is a spectacularly snide piece of legislation called the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)...

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/9199/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Los Angeles Times

07/15/10

The number of U.S. homes taken back by banks through foreclosure hit a record high in the second quarter, even as lenders delayed more homes from entering the process through short sales and loan modification efforts, according to data to be released Thursday. This growing supply of lender-owned properties could set back the nation’s housing recovery but probably won’t sink it completely if the nation’s employment situation doesn’t deteriorate further and the economy begins to pick up steam, experts said. Sales of homes have faltered nationally in recent months with the expiration of government tax incentives for buyers...

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Watchdogs slam Obama housing programs

MSNBC

07/21/10

Obama administration housing rescue programs have been ineffective at preventing a rise in home foreclosures even as the government’s support for the mortgage market grew by nearly $700 billion in the past year, bailout watchdogs said on Wednesday. Neil Barofsky, Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, heaped more criticism on Treasury for its failure to adopt more realistic goals for the number of people who can benefit from its program to modify mortgages to slash monthly payments...

http://tinyurl.com/2dkd7o3


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Shocking Surprises Yet Ahead for the U.S. Housing Market

Home sales have dropped to all-time record lows. Is there an end in sight? New home sales in the US dropped a record 33 percent in May.

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1 Million American Households Likely to Lose Homes to Foreclosure This Year

By Associated Press

Nearly 528,000 homes were taken over by lenders in the first six months of the year. By comparison, lenders have historically taken over about 100,000 homes a year.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article25952.htm



Seven More U.S. Banks Shut by Regulators, Pushing Year's Failures Past 100

Banks with total deposits of about $2 billion were shut down yesterday, according to statements on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. website. The failures cost the FDIC's deposit- insurance fund $431 million. The U.S. bank-failure count this year rose to 103.

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Bankruptcy filings up 25% over last year

Many consumers struggling with job loss.
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FDIC flashes SOS - 1,000 bank failures before recession is over

By the end of the recession, there will be approximately 1,000 bank failures. Does this sound extreme? It should but the numbers don't cover the entire story. Since 2008 the number of bank failures has reached 269 and this doesn't include consolidations done through the FDIC where bigger banks ate up smaller banks before they officially failed.

http://bit.ly/aJk5vj



Bank-Bankruptcy: Five More Banks Bankrupt, Insurance Funds Siphoned

For a normal business to fail during the time of economic downturn is nothing out of the ordinary. However, when banks start to fail, then the public might have more to get concerned about. The total number of failed banks this year in the US has reached a number of 108, as another five banks failed.

http://clicknews.org/five-more-banks-fail-to-bankruptcy-insurance-funds-siphoned/101160/



Bankrupt Banks List

The FDIC is often appointed as receiver for failed banks. This page contains useful information for the customers and vendors of these banks. This includes information on the acquiring bank (if applicable), how your accounts and loans are affected, and how vendors can file claims against the receivership.

http://www.fdic.gov/bank/individual/failed/banklist.html


From Information Clearing House

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No Letup in Foreclosures
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/07/16



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Is the Gates Foundation involved in bribery?
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A Failed Obama Hero
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